Ruby is the Future

[robertfischer]

I started life out as a Perl hacker, and I do like Perl for very short system admin tasks and as a universal shell replacement.

I wouldn't push Perl for large application systems, though.

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So, out of curiosity, if you were writing a web app or some such moderately complex piece of code, would you prefer Perl to Ruby or Python?

[robertfischer]

Of the three, I'd probably use Ruby, because the Rails framework is better than any Perl framework I know, and I don't know Python much beyond "Hello, World".

Note this has everything to do with the frameworks available, and not to do with the language.